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There are 28 student-athletes throughout Broward County that were nominated by their school's athletic director in consideration for the Broward County Scholar Athlete of the Year.Here is a list of the nominees:Archbishop McCarthyNICHOLAS PAUL...

Tucked inside dresser drawers, sold in school bathrooms and popped before exams, “study drugs” like Adderall are prescription medications that many teens are familiar with.
The pills are sold and traded with bold promises: You’ll be able to study all...

Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James are among the best players to ever shoot a basketball. But before they were record-setting NBA giants, they were all players in the McDonald’s All American Games. The games give us a glimpse...

With a runner on third base and one out, senior Ravi Bakhai laced a 1-0 curveball just above the shortstop's head to score pinch runner Cameron Andres as Pine Crest defeated Coral Springs Charter 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning.Bakhai, a...

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Philip Jackson, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago whose specialty was educational research, moved in the course of his career from studying test scores and other data-driven achievement measures to taking a more holistic approach to...

Dr. Charles Rubin, a pediatric cancer specialist at University of Chicago Medicine, excelled at research and patient care but ultimately decided to focus on working with patients and their families.
"He did a wonderful job in the research...

A woman whose 13-month-old son was struck and killed as he sat in his stroller at a bus stop during a high-speed police chase this month in Chicago is suing the city, saying officers ignored orders by their superiors to stop the pursuit. "My son...

Jackson Park was a piece of Frederick Law Olmsted's grand design for South Side parks that barely got off his drawing board.The celebrated landscape architect was commissioned in 1869 to study two sites then beyond Chicago's southern border. He wasn't...

The first of two parts. Next week: Jackson Park..The possibility that a chunk of Washington Park will be taken out for the Obama presidential library and museum isn't the first time the South Side greensward has been the center of controversy. The...

"Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth"
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $26.99
He has been an editor, writer, advertising executive, lobbyist, lawyer and theatrical producer, but Albert Podell is an...

The annual number of abortions in Illinois is continuing to fall, reflecting a national trend and reaching the lowest point in a decades-long decline.
The latest figures show that there were 40,750 surgical abortions performed in Illinois in 2013,...

A while back, I wrote in this space about adult children moving their elderly parents to live near them.
It was an experience a friend was going through as his father's health was declining precipitously in Florida.
As did I when I arranged for my...

On the occasion of the final episode of "Mad Men" on Sunday, let the record show that the route to television's sendup of hard-drinking, hard-selling hucksters began in Chicago.
In 1904, a Chicago adman gave a junior colleague a lesson in how...

Barbara Salata was anxious, couldn't sleep and told her family it felt like she was having a heart attack. The 77-year-old Libertyville woman would forget things and generally "wasn't the mom that we knew," said her son, Bob Salata Jr.
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By PricewaterhouseCoopers' projection, the biggest sectors of the "sharing economy" — including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb — could be pulling in as much as $335 billion in global revenue by 2025. That's a...

National Nurses United said Friday it has called for a one-day strike April 30 against University of Chicago Medicine.
Jan Rodolfo, the union's Midwest director, said no significant movement has been made on sticking issues.
The strike notice was issued...

Tsuen-hsuin "T.H." Tsien, considered by colleagues as the most influential Chinese librarian in America, developed one of the country's greatest East Asian libraries at the University of Chicago.Mr. Tsien, former curator of the Far Eastern...

As word spread of Cardinal Francis George's death, Catholic parishes throughout the Chicago area and suburbs stopped classes in their schools, halted the workday at offices and paused to reflect on how the admired leader personally affected their...